Images of World War I Australian servicemen

Discovering Anzacs – The National Archives of Australia and Archives New Zealand commemorate the Centenary of Anzac.

We are delighted that the National Archives is now able to share 500 digital images of Australian World War I servicemen which we recently received from the Department of Veterans' Affairs (DVA).

These images were identified by DVA staff member Courtney Page-Allen, a recipient of the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Fellowship. To find them, she spent 18 months searching through the 16,000 World War I images held in the Bonds of Sacrifice collection of the Imperial War Museum, London.

The digital images provided to the National Archives include photographs taken in London studios while servicemen were on leave and occasional newspaper clippings.